Weaver, among college sports' most accessible and candid administrators, revealed Wednesday that he hopes to retire when his contract expires Dec. 31, 2015.

Beamer's contract, which Tech extended last week, concludes a year later. Both men would be 70 if they served out their respective deals.

Despite the varied yet inevitable declines North Carolina basketball, Alabama football and UCLA basketball endured following the departures of iconic coaches Dean Smith, Bear Bryant and John Wooden, most ADs would welcome the chance to hire the replacement for a man with Beamer's Hall of Fame credentials.

Not Weaver.

"I don't want to," he said, answering a question his colleagues would duck like a Floyd Mayweather uppercut. "The new AD ought to be the one to do that."

Tech's athletic director since 1997, Weaver disclosed four years ago that he suffers from Parkinson's Disease, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that impairs speech and coordination. But he told me then that he still planned to work until age 70.

Weaver affirmed that stance Wednesday.

"Seventy is ideal right now," he said, citing a desire to retire before his soon-to-be-10-year-old, Craig, becomes a high school upperclassman.

Weaver is 65, about 17 months older than Beamer. He's recovering from his third back operation in as many years and won't resume full-time office hours until mid-September. But the procedure, performed, as were the others, at the University of Virginia, has relieved debilitating leg pain.

Weaver, a former Penn State player and assistant coach, is also indebted to Beamer, who has guided Tech to 17 consecutive bowls and six straight seasons of at least 10 victories. Balancing the books and pickpocketing boosters is much easier for an athletic director when the football team is winning.

"In (Beamer's) current contract we were supposed to do this (extension) a year ago," Weaver said. "We went back-and-forth on a couple of things and never did get it done. But we both wanted to do it now for recruiting into the future. I'm tickled to death because he's taken this program to unprecedented heights."

The recruiting component speaks to college football's underbelly. With millions in revenue at stake, many coaches have no qualms rumor-mongering about a rival's potential retirement or dismissal.

With Beamer and Weaver likely on the job together for another five years, Virginia Tech athletics benefits from uncommon stability at the top.